The conference has become the third major international event organized by the Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra, the Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme, and the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre within the framework of UNESCO and Russia’s collaborative work in the field of communication and information. The present conference was preceded by two world expert meetings on the preservation of languages and promotion of linguistic diversity in cyberspace (Paris, France, 2014, and Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, 2015).